Body Slam
Alternative title: Body Slam - Super Pro Wrestling
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Body Slam
1988 Silverbird
Status: Full Game, Findability: 3/5

Coding: Jonathan French
Graphics: Wayne Blake
Sound: Tim Follin

Body Slam was a Sega arcade game which featured female wrestlers doing battle in the ring.  It was fairly obscure, not not obscure enough for Firebird to take up the licence it seems with Software Creations behind the work.

A conversion was completed by Jonathan French, who converted Agent X 2 to the C64 previously, with Wayne Blake (Mermaid Madness, Psycho Pigs UXB, Raw Recruit) on graphics and Tim Follin on music.

Oddly though, the game doesn’t seem to have ever got a full release – though it has existed on the scene for many years for download.  Richard Hewison of the Bird Sanctuary website believes that the game was earmarked for released on the new Silverbird label (in the same way that Atari’s Peter Pack Rat was, also written by Software Creations).  For reasons unknown, it never happened.  Maybe the licence fell through?

The game never got a conversion for the other 8-bits, so this seems to have been a C64 exclusive, though variants of the arcade did appear on the Master System – but was nothing to do with Firebird or Software Creations.

Interestingly, collector Mat Allen found a master disk some time back – and has dug out and created a G64 image of it for the archives, which you can find in the download links.  Just why didn’t the game get a release?

Here it is anyway – we hope to hear from Jonathan French at some point to confirm what happened.  Watch this space!

Contributions: Paul Fogarty, Gamebase64, Mat Allen
http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/body-slam/
